A New Perspective (Blog #2)

A New Perspective

Two weeks after doing our presentation, and after seeing the other groups presentations as well, I can conclude that the presentation that we did was pretty good, not only did we have less time and still came up with a good amount of reliable research for the topic, and a solid pair of slides, but we also had a good synchronization between everyone, we all knew what we needed to do and we did it the best way possible. However, I would be lying if I said that I think it's perfect, it is obviously not, in fact, there’s one specific thing that, looking back, I would change for good.

                                           

That thing is the messy organization, I am not trying to throw “shade” on anyone, in fact, I’m glad that my group has some kind of “order” at least, but a week before the presentation the difference in the progress between some of our partners was abysmal. In fact, there were several times that one part of the presentation was totally finished while the other one wasn’t even started yet. Anyhow, the couple of partners that were inconsistent managed to get it all done in a good amount of time.

 Moving on, I am really glad that we took this topic, not only did it open my third eye to a subject that I had not much information about, but it also thought me a life lesson, don’t trust media, or at least most of it. When you think about it, it makes sense that one should not trust the media in general, they try to get attention and polemics going on, as they thrive in problematic situations and awkward moments because of the revenue they attain from it. However, this problem is easy to fix, just don’t rely on media, and it is easy as it sounds, the only thing that you really need to do is that whenever your read an article, always look at who is writing it, and that’s it. Most of the time, the article that you are reading has an agenda to complete or a certain group of people that want to attract, and they will knowingly deform the data to satisfy these two.

Now, talking about this subject was really something, not only did we get the honor of interviewing one pretty important woman, but we also found out some information that, from my point of view, is something outstanding.

One of those bizarre data facts is that women actually make more money between the ages of 20-30 than men in that same range, and this is something that caught me off guard, because of course, we all know that in general, men tend to gain more money than women, and this is, in fact, no because of sexism, is because a wide variety of factors that were presented and talked in our slides. However, the thing about this fact is that the more you read it the more it makes sense, of course, women make more money than men between the ages of 20-30, not the majority of the high-end paying jobs take at least 7 years to complete, but also women commonly tend to take more care for their family after getting their degrees or after having a successful career, and this is usually between these ages.

Another thing that stood out was how little information we have on the science aspect of this subject, no one really knows why do women tend to search for lower-paying jobs or why do men tend to do the contrary. There are some theories about it, of course, some of those theories state that it is because how are our bodies exposed to different hormones before we are even born, and others blame society for forcing the women to take these kinds of jobs, as they are usually more flexible and manageable if you are taking care of a child or family. Of course, because these are theories and not defined concepts it is impossible to make a concise conclusion, but what we can take is that is at least interesting how different we are not only on the outside but also in the inside.

On the other hand, we got a chance to research another part of the world that are not as lucky as the US, or at least the women are not as lucky. One example of those places was Yemen, where the GII value in 2012 was 0.747, The GII value is the percentage of human development that is lost because of the inequality of genders. In addition to Yemen, there are a bunch of other countries that have the same o somewhat the same GII and we also got to study, some of those countries are Afghanistan, The Republic of Niger, Congo, Liberia, Etc. Nevertheless, we need to remember that there are bad examples and also good examples, such as Switzerland and Sweden, both countries with an astonishing GII Value of 0.045, meaning that only 4.5 percent of this said development is being lost, a really good example to see and to strive for. And if you were guessing, the Us is in the 46^th place in this list, not an actual bad spot, but it isn’t good either.

Nonetheless, I feel like we did a good job, the topic was fun to research, the slides were not as horrible as I thought and we got to know a bit more about who are we doing projects with, by just looking at the slides I know what people I want to make groups with and which I should choose to not make groups at all. Maybe that was the point of making the groups without having a chance to make the groups by ourselves, to start seeing patterns in people and to get to know with what kind of people we should be around, or maybe I am just looking too far into it. Whatever the case it could be, I am just happy with my work and with my grade.

-Angel Reyes